Boy George guilty of imprisonment


Boy George had denied one count of false imprisonment


Singer Boy George has been found guilty of falsely imprisoning a male escort at his flat in east London.
Norwegian Audun Carlsen, 29, said the former Culture Club frontman beat him with a metal chain as he tried to escape from his Shoreditch flat.
The musician, being tried under his real name George O'Dowd, alleged that Mr Carlsen hacked into his laptop and stole photographs.
O'Dowd had denied one count of false imprisonment.
He did not give evidence himself during the trial.
However, the court heard that O'Dowd told police he handcuffed Mr Carlsen to his bed on April 28 last year while he investigated the alleged tampering of his computer. O'Dowd accused Mr Carlsen of obtaining photos of himself from his laptop, taken by O'Dowd when the pair had met three months earlier. The singer is expected to be sentenced on 16 January.



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